A wonderful look at the working style of one of SPLAB's poetry heroes, Michael McClure, as described by his last...
splab archive blog
Cascadia Poetics LAB was known as SPLAB prior to September 2021. Here you will find past SPLAB blog articles going back to 2009.
Kubota Garden Poems
From Lola Peters: Kubota Garden Revealed Your Kubota Garden Poem Open, online, poetry reading Monday, April 12,...
Richard Hugo House and the Writing Community
It is with great sorrow that I sit to compose this post about the Seattle writing community. For many years now,...
WA Poet Laureate Wants Your Poem
From Kathleen Flenniken: Hi my friends, Thank you for contributing to my poet laureate blog, The Far Field. I’m trying...
Two More Gigs for Habib from Morocco
El Habib Louai is charming the people of Seattle who see his almost constant smile, hear his translations of Ginsberg...
Moroccan Poet El Habib Louai Visits Seattle
SICA, the Subud International Cultural Association is delighted to welcome El Habib Louai to the Northwest for...
Allergic to Cats (audio)
Wednesday night I attended a poetry reading of younger women poets on Capitol Hill. Organized by Jocelyn Macdonald, it...
Plea of Not Guilty in Brian Love’s Death
From the Seattle Times: July 23, 2013 at 12:03 PM Not guilty plea by man charged in fatal Auburn hit-and-run crash...
Brian Love Update
As I posted on this blog last week, Brian Love, a longtime SPLAB volunteer and all-around handyman, was killed by a...
Brian Love Killed in Car Wreck
I had a weird feeling when I saw someone's Facebook post that a cab driver had been killed in Auburn early on Friday...
Jose Kozer wins Neruda Award ($60K!)
Former SPLAB Visiting Poet, Jose Kozer, perhaps the pre-eminent living Cuban poet, won the Neruda Award from the...
LitFuse, Sept 27-29, Tieton
From Michael Schein: Dear Poets,In less than 3 months poets from all over the Pacific NW & beyond will gather in...
12th Ginsberg Marathon
Bless Jack Remick for doing what I did not have the energy to do after SPLAB's 12th Ginsberg Marathon. It happened...
Ginsberg’s LGBTQ Poetics
Nadine Maestas leads a panel that will mark the last event of the 12th Allen Ginsberg Memorial Open Mic Poetry...
Band of Poets at AG Marathon, Saturday June 1
For the fourth year in a row, Band of Poets will be performing at the annual Allen Ginsberg Memorial Open Mic Poetry...
Submission guidelines: Off the Map, (Your State)
Submission guidelines: Off the Map, (Your State) A compilation of poetry, short stories, and flash fiction Greystone...
Jack Remick Kicks Off AG Marathon
The beautiful posters by Tessa Hulls are getting out there and local Beat fans are digging through dog-eared copies of...
Poetilla Floats again Tuesday
This from Scot Brannon: Who was it said, 'Summer's lease hath all too short a date'? Probably Billy Collins. And so...